Ed Madden

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Labour Court case in which an NCHD appealed against a decision of a Rights Commissioner on the grounds that the amount of compensation awarded for breaches of working time legislation was insufficient.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a senior HSE manager sought to restrain her temporary reassignment from her current position and the appointment of another person to her post.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Court of Appeal case in which counsel for the plaintiff maintained that he was not given a proper opportunity by the High Court judge to establish by cross-examination that a medical expert in a medical negligence action was not impartial

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Circuit Court case in which a man who was dismissed from his hospice post sought a continuation of the terms of his contract of employment pending the determination of proceedings before the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which the Psychiatric Nurses Association challenged a Labour Court recommendation that it would be irresponsible for a county council to accede to the union’s request for negotiation rights on behalf of its members.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which the parents of a young woman who died in 2011 challenged a decision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which prevented the woman’s mother being implanted with one of her daughter’s eggs following fertilisation.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a woman sued a consultant radiologist claiming that he negligently failed to detect an aneurysm in her brain, which ruptured 12 years later leaving her with serious disabilities.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which a woman sued an NHS Foundation Trust arising from an alleged failure on the part of the Trust to advise her that her unborn baby might be suffering from a chromosomal abnormality.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK High Court case in which the Court was asked to decide whether the actions of ambulance personnel, at least in part, were responsible for the tetraplegia of a man who had broken his neck in a fall at his home.

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case that considered whether a man should be retried for murder after the original trial collapsed following a dramatic intervention by the State Pathologist.